Tony Perkins’ Always On is hosting the annual “Innovation Summit” at Santa Clara University (SCU).
This excellent high-level business conference, which i’ve attended for four years out of the past five, has been renamed this year. Formerly, it was the “Venture Capital Summit at Stanford”.
It has been relocated from Stanford University, 20 miles to the north (just West of Palo Alto), to Santa Clara University (SCU), in the heart of San Jose California.
These six start-ups pitched at AlwaysOn 2009:
This start-up provides a socially-enable “Application Store” for major web properties, including Sprint, European Telcos.
A start-up with a slick iPhone application for browsing train and transit schedules by voice command.
The AlwaysOn 2009 conference at Stanford featured these 13 startup CEO presentations:
1. PreVisite – Jeffrey Nortman, COO:
A new, easier, better way to list private homes for sale online.
Provides a specialized GPS road tolling service.
An interactive learning network for educational applications.
This panel about the merits of Angel versus Venture capital investment was moderated by Sam Angus, Partner at Fenwick and West. The panelists were:
As of 4:00PM PDT Wed July 30 (event runs another 1 hour):
Tony Perkins and senior staffers wish Stanford Summit Audience Audu
An interview with John Kish, President & CEO, Pano Logic
An interview with Dave Kroetsch, President, Aeryon Labs
An interview with Promptu CEO
An interview with Liquid Scenarios CEO
Tony Perkins and TIm Miller, VP at 451 Group opened the “Summit at Stanford” this evening with an overview of the current M&A and IPO market, and by reviewing the status of the AO 250 announced at last year’s conference.
One of the highlights from the 451 Group, 90 percent of strategic acquirers expect private company valuations to decrease six months ago, whereas now only one third do.
At the AlwaysOn 2009 Summit at Stanford a panel of entrepreneurs and intellectual property experts discussed the issue of using open source software for SaaS applications:
uTest co-founder and CEO Doron Reuveni interviews with Startup Trek about his fast-growing company during a break at the AlwaysOn 2009 conference. uTest is a venture capital funded startup based in Boston, MA which has invented a “crowdsourced” testing model for mobile device applications.
This panel discussion, moderated by Rafe Needleman of CNET, brought together six founders and executives from the cloud computing world:
The concept of an “internal” (private/enterprise) cloud was broached and contrasted to the more conventional notion of a public, internet-attached cloud environment.
Mark Newhall, C0-founder IdealWave and INMobile.org moderated a panel at AlwaysOn 2009, examining the health and viability of mobile computing applications, advertising, and marketing. The panelists were: